Our digital journalism conference Newsrewired is a place where top industry minds gather to exchange ideas around media innovation. What's chopping, changing and challenging within newsrooms everywhere.

Since 2010, when our predecessors first launched the event, we have had hundreds of expert speakers take to the stage and share their experiments, insights and experience. We try to spotlight unsung media heroes and those at the cutting edge of innovation in digital media.

So here's a list of our speakers from recent years as a nod to their work, which is well worth following (even if they've since taken their careers outside of news and journalism). Job roles are listed as their most recent positions.

NB: We've gone as far back as 2018 (the tenure of our current editorial team), including panel moderators and speakers from our study tour. But we haven't included sponsored speakers and inactive online users, but we remain grateful to everyone who has spoken at Newsrewired in any capacity over the years.

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Matt Abbott, director, Ping News | UK
Barry Adams, SEO and audience growth consultant, Polemic Digital | UK
Joyce Adeluwoye-Adams, global editor, newsroom diversity and mental health, Reuters | UK
Jo Adetunji, executive editor, partnerships, The Conversation | UK
Abdullah Ahmed, director of subscriber retention and planning, Times Media | UK
Dara Ajala, program manager, Nigeria Media Innovation Program | Nigeria
Gavin Allen, senior lecturer, Cardiff University’s School of Journalism | UK
Esther Alonso, marketing and membership programme director, eldiario.es | Spain
Martina Andretta, head of growth, Metro UK and Metro.co.uk | UK
Lisa Archibald, co-director, Intentional Peer Support Network | UK
Beth Ashton, chief growth officer, Bright Sites* | UK
Jonathan Aspinwall, executive editor, BBC Newsnight | UK
Alon Aviram, investigative reporter, The Gecko Project | UK
Bola Awoniyi, co-founder and COO, Black Ballad | UK

*spoke in both unsponsored and sponsored talks

Thomas Baekdal, media analyst, Baekdal Media | Denmark
Hazel Baker, senior manager, trust & safety operations, Snap Inc. | UK
James Ball, political editor, The New World | UK
Matthew Barraclough, executive lead, BBC Local and Nations |UK
Jane Barrett, head of AI stategy, Reuters
Charlie Beckett, director, JournalismAI, Polis, LSE | UK
Valérie Bélair-Gagnon, director of undergraduate studies, Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota | US
Fergus Bell, founder and CEO, Fathm
Jessica Best, journalist, editor, researcher, media strategist | UK
Jon Birchall, social innovation and strategy lead, Channel 4 | UK
Henry Bird, features sub-editor, The Times | UK
Marc Blank-Settle, MoJo trainer, BBC Academy
Dan Bloom, UK political editor, POLITICO Europe | UK
Clare Bolton, chief content officer, Law Business Research |UK
Maire Bonheim, head of newsletters, The Telegraph | UK
Robin Booth, managing director, emap | UK
Alexandra Borchardt, senior research associate, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism | Germany
Sarah Bosley, deputy editor, Newbury News and Media | UK
Jess Brammar, editorial executive, BBC Content | UK
Rozina Breen, director of editorial, global, Pulitzer Center | UK
James Breiner, bilingual business coach and journalism consultant | US
George Brock, media commentator, researcher and consultant | UK
Nina Brorson, content development editor, Berlingske Media | Denmark

Frances Cairncross, economist and author, The Cairncross Review | UK
David Caswell, founder, StoryFlow | UK
Brian Cathcart, founding director, Hacked Off | UK
Joe Cawthorn, content strategist, National World | UK
Sacha Cayre, chief marketing officer, Contexte | France
Charlie Celino, commercial services director, News UK | UK
Suchandrika Chakrabarti, journalist, podcaster, comedian | UK
Kate Chaplin, head of news video, The Sun | UK
Gloria Cheung, producer, Bloomberg Originals | UK
Madhav Chinnappa, formerly Google | UK
Kassy Cho, founder and editor-in-chief, Almost | Taiwan
Gina Chua, executive editor, Semafor; executive director, Tow-Knight Centre | US
Len Clark, media innovation specialist and emerging media consultant | US
Pete Clifton, media consultant; former editor-in-chief, Press Association | UK
Marverine Cole, news presenter, Good Morning Britain | UK
Susie Coleman, engineer, Spotify | UK
Alistair Coleman, freelance journalist; former disinformation analyst, BBC Monitoring | UK
Jem Collins, founder and director, JournoResources | UK
Russell Contreras, race and justice reporter, Axios | US
Clare Cook, head of journalism and media viability, International Media Support | Denmark/UK
Aaron Coultate, senior newsletter editor, The Economist | UK
Sian Cox-Brooker, product content operations lead, Meta | UK
Alex Crawford, special correspondent, Sky News | UK
John Crowley, editor, risk and regulation hub, The Banker, The FT | UK

Shivani Dave, freelance radio presenter, Virgin Radio | UK
Edmund Davison, founding head of growth, Jack & Jill | UK

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